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We're Going to Need More Wine by Gabrielle Union

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People don’t know what to do with you if you are not trying to assimilate.

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Imani’s Quotes

“Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be”
― James Baldwin

tags: freedom, liberty

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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“In order to rise
From its own ashes
A phoenix
First
Must
Burn.”
― Octavia Butler, Parable of the Talents

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“To be nobody but
yourself in a world
which is doing its best day and night to make you like
everybody else means to fight the hardest battle
which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: poetry

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“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

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Minorities in Fantasy and Science Fiction — 359 members — last activity Apr 25, 2026 09:46AM
When I was a little girl I wanted to be Storm from X-Men. She was the only kick-butt black female super heroine in the world who could fly and "make i ...more

Caribbean Readers — 680 members — last activity Oct 07, 2026 08:28AM
This group is for readers who enjoy (or would like to learn more about) works by writers from the Caribbean and its diaspora... All languages welcome. ...more

Dreaming Languages Fans Reading Club — 224 members — last activity Sep 04, 2026 08:37AM
This is a place where fans of Dreaming Languages can cheer each other on with our reading goals, share book reviews and opinions on difficulty levels, ...more